The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-15

One reason for this is that he has in
herited the unpopular manners of his
mother rather than the popular qualities
of his father. This sufficiently ex-
plains why there is no "boom " for
him in Illinois.
WE turned corps of reporters loose
upon the republicans of the Illinois
legislature just after they had listened
to Senator Sherman's speech, with a
view to ascertaining presidential pref
erences. Out of about ninety members
interviewed forty-six are for Blaine as
first choice, and nineteen are for Sher-
man as first choice. Three are for
Blaine as second choice and eleven are
for Sherman as second choice.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrdt.
THE independent " papers are
already declaring that if John Sherman
is the republican candidate for presi-
dent he will be defeated by the " indie
pendents." We commend this declara-
ton to those republicans who have
"soft side for mugwumps, and who
think that this faction can be propi-
tiated by shelving Mr.. Blaine. The
fact is that the mugwumps have deter
mined not to support any man whom
the republicans nominate.
JUDGE ALPHoNso TAFT of Ohio tells
New York interviewer that the Buck
eye State will send solid delegation
for Sherman in 1888, but that does not
nominate him. His idea is that the
republican nomination will be settled
by the New York delegation, and if
that is solid for Mr.. Blaine he will be
the republican candidate. There is
great enthusiasm for Mr.. Blaine at the
West, but Judge Taft thinks that Sher-
man is strong in New York.
IT appears that it was not Minister
Phelps but Henry White, second secre-
tary of the American legation in Lon
don, who gave out that hereafter the
legation will make presentations at
court only when the lady is a person
of genuine distinction, whose position
in the United States justfies her at
tending the drawing-room under the
auspices of her minister" Mr.. Henry
White halls from " My Maryland" and
is not person of great distinction.
THE great republican club of New
York city has virtually declared for
Blaine in 1888. Whereat the anti
Blaine papers are sorrowful, for they
have great expectations in other direc-
tons. The Springfield Republican is
especially disgruntled, though it is in
no sense republican paper. 1t init
mates quite pointedly that the Irish
Americans constitute one of the baser
elements of our politics." This fling
will not please its democratic allies.
REPRESENTATIVE, speaker, senator,
secretary of state, and but for an
oligarchy which rules some of the
states, president of the United States,
Mr.. Blaine, in all his public roles, has
sustained himself as " first among his
equals ''-proved himself the peer of
any man who ever held similar power.
AS a political leader he rivals Glad
stone, as debater he stands with Pitt,
as a diplomat the equal of Cavour, as a
political historian he ranks with Macau-
ley Washington National Republican.
SENATOR SHERMAN's assertion that
the President has appointed so many con-
federates and confederate sympathizers
to the foreign service " that every nation
to which these gentlemen are accredited
may fairly conclude that it was the rebel
cause that triumphed, and not the
| Union cause,' has considerably stirred
up some of the mugwump journals. AS
| the Tribune well observes, Mr.. Sher-
mans speech has been followed by
"angry eruptions of the democratic
and mugwump volcanoes" but not one
of them is able to refute his stateme nts.
THE law of nature is that the i'm
provements of science, invention, in
dustry and wealth, which are continu-
ally made, benefit the masses of men
generally far more than they benefit the
individual inventor, industrialist or
capitalist, though these may appear to
be especially benefited. The poor are
to-day and in this country far better
educated, better housed, better fed,
better dressed, better provided with the
necessities and luxuries of life than
ever before, and they live longer and
enjoy greater freedom from disease
than ever before.-Ne,c York Sun.
In the Massachusetts, house of repre-
sentatives, last week, the prohibition
constitutional amendment failed to get
the necessary two-thirds vote. OF the
142 members recorded in favor of the
measure 126 were republicans, 10 were
democrats, one Independent republi-
can, one independent democrat and
one independent. OF the II recorded
against it II were republicans, So were
democrats and two independent demo-
Gratis. Prohibitionists should examine
this record and then consider whether
it is profitable to run third party in
the interests of the democracy, for
thus far this has been the only tangible
result of the third party movement.
IN speech at Baltimore ex-Confed-
crate General ID. H. Hill of Georgia
cast serious reflection upon the north
ern democracy. He said: g No official
from the old South was ever charged
with roguery," and left the inference
plain that for the long list of democratic
defalcations before the war the north